How to view .pdf instead of downloading it

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Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. I tried using the embed tag and an iframe, but it only works when that option is checked. What can I do? Improve this question. Peter Mortensen Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Improve this answer. Quentin k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. ColinM ColinM Taboada but then the user's system may not know the file type. Perhaps if you want to override the user's preferences then octet-stream would be the way to go, but giving the correct type and a suggested filename is the "correct" way to provide a download.

So my question is should the content type be set before uploading? And also, we get only a link from the backend team, a url that gives the file path, that we open in new tab using:window. Kailas I don't understand what you're trying to do.. These headers have no effect on a file upload, you need to have the code behind the url set the headers every time it is downloaded by the client. ColinM Thanks buddy, you said it right, the issue when we debugged was the mime type was set while uploading the files.

This should be done by the back-end team. I tried to get codes on how to add headers in java script but was not successful. Thanks, as I got the real idea cleared from you Show 5 more comments. It uses the custom filename specified on the view side. Christophe Roussy Christophe Roussy Akshay Akshay 2, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges.

If you have control over the server code you should use 'attachement' as this will allow to use the same filename generation code. If you have no control over the server this is a good solution. This is a brilliant solution to the problem however, as always, IE is holding us back from using it: caniuse.

Important to note that this does not work across domains e. If downloading from one domain, the download attribute will not work if content is stored on a different domain. CORS may allow that content to pass through haven't tested. Yes figured! Show 1 more comment. This is for ASP. FilePath, FileMode. Open, FileAccess. Leon van Wyk Leon van Wyk 8 8 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. Oops, there were typing errors in my previous post. Andrew Barber What previous post? If you have Apache add this to the.

Alexander Alexander 43 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Kindly suggest me. Thanks in advance. That does the opposite to what is asked for — Quentin. Nervous Laughter By default , when you open a pdf file in firefox, it will provide you with a popup to either save the pdf file or to open it directly and there is also a check box which says do this action automatically from now on and guess who selected it.

Ashfaq nisar Ashfaq nisar 6 6 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Nick Kongk. Open downloads. Cleb No mention that they use PHP. What if their backend is in Python or. He doesn't even say what framework he's talking about. I have used this code and it worked perfectly. However, downloading a PDF is still possible. By default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder. To have PDF files open in the browser again, repeat these steps and select the Preview in Firefox option or Use other option to choose another program.

By default, Opera opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder. To change how Opera treats PDF files in the browser, follow the steps below.

Tip To have PDF files open in the browser again, repeat these steps and select the Preview in Firefox option or Use other option to choose another program.